Episode

Mount Rushmore

by David Shore, Mike Listo, Jasika Nicole, Steve Murphy, Dylan Kingwell and 23 others

Dr. Shaun Murphy’s attention to detail complicates his first day at St. Bonaventure Hospital. Meanwhile, Dr. Claire Browne learns a valuable lesson about honesty when confronted with a difficult diagnosis for her patient.

(13 total)

Characters

David Shore (13)Dr. Aaron Glassman (4)Richard Schiff (4)Nicholas Gonzalez (3)Dr. Neil Melendez (3)Hill Harper (2)Dr. Marcus Andrews (2)Dr. Shaun Murphy (2)Freddie Highmore (2)Dylan Kingwell (1)

“You can't tell me how to run my team.”

— David Shore, Dr. Neil Melendez, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com

Tagged: Team, Bossy, tell me

“I'm teaching you both that he doesn't belong.”

— David Shore, Dr. Neil Melendez, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com

Tagged: Teaching, Both, Belonging, Learning

“You're gonna make me pull rank, I will pull rank. This is my hospital.”

— David Shore, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com

Tagged: pull rank, hospital, President

“He doesn't want to be a radiologist. He wants to be a surgeon. That's what we hired him to be. That's what I worked damn hard to hire him to be. Not a glorified orderly.”

— David Shore, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com

Tagged: radiologist, Surgeon, hired, glorified, Frustrated

“It's my department. It's my job to know everything.”

— David Shore, Dr. Marcus Andrews, Hill Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: department, Job, know everything

“Dr. Neil Melendez: Well, then, since I work for you, doesn't that make all of this actually your fault? Dr. Marcus Andrews: Oh, I'm sorry, I stopped listening after 'I work for you.'”

— David Shore, Dr. Marcus Andrews, Hill Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: Fault, boss, Apologize, stopped listening

“It is your responsibility to be here. If you are not, you have failed in that responsibility, which makes it your fault.”

— David Shore, Dr. Neil Melendez, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com

Tagged: Responsibility, present, On Time, failed, your fault

“Dr. Neil Melendez: Dr. Murphy, you're late. Dr. Shaun Murphy: No, the bus was late. The schedule was clear. They post it online.”

— David Shore, Dr. Shaun Murphy, Freddie Highmore, imdb.com

Tagged: late, schedule, bus, Online

“When you reassure someone, they have to receive it. You have to gauge whether they actually are reassured.”

— David Shore, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com

Tagged: reassure, recieved, gauge

“You do know you're drooling, right? About cutting open a 40-year-old woman. A real person, right behind that door.”

— David Shore, Dr. Claire Browne, Antonia Thomas, imdb.com

Tagged: drooling, Surgery, cutting open, Real Person, Patient

“He more than earned the right to be here. He has had to get past people like you and their prejudices every step of the way.”

— David Shore, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com

Tagged: Earned, get past, prejudices, every step of the way

“You're right, I'm weird. Part of my weirdness is that I perseverate. That means I keep thinking about things.”

— David Shore, Dr. Shaun Murphy, Freddie Highmore, imdb.com

Tagged: Weird, perseverate, Keep thinking

“If you want to get anything in life, Shaun, there's one thing you got to do: never be afraid.”

— David Shore, Steve Murphy, Dylan Kingwell, imdb.com

Tagged: never be afraid, Life, Progress